Category: Internet

More and more websites are using the location aware browsing technology to present to you information relevant to your geographical location (in short geolocation). For this location aware browsing, these websites rely on your geolocation supplied by your browser. If you are using Mozilla Firefox, then you can easily spoof your geolocation using the GeoLocater add-on for Firefox.

Often when we are enjoying Youtube videos, something important comes up and we have to close the browser window to attend to that important task. Later when we come back to our computer, either we have forgotten about Youtube or find it hard to open that same video we were enjoying earlier. A Firefox add-on resumeLater takes on this problem. Using this add-on you can bookmark any video on Youtube (as well as other video sites) and resume it later from the same time position.

The Facebook Auto-Logout add-on logs you automatically out of Facebook when you close Firefox or if you have not opened Facebook for a specified period of time – default time being one minute. This add-on removes all Facebook cookies, resulting in your automatic logout. This also makes your Facebook presence hidden from other sites which use the Facebook like button. Because your Facebook cookies are removed, they cannot trace your web browsing behavior using these tracking cookies.

FastestChrome is an extension for Chrome browser that adds many productive and time saving features to Google Chrome. You can scroll down one page after another using the endless page feature, turn text URLs into actual hyperlinks, quickly pop up definitions on highlighting a word and more. It can deliver a painless, faster browsing experience to your Google Chrome browser.

Hover Zoom is a Google Chrome extension which you can use to easily view all the images in their full enlarged form without having to click on any thumbnail or link. Now you can browse images galleries with ease. Just move your mouse cursor over thumbnails to view images in their full size without loading a new page. If pictures are very big and cannot fit the browser window, then these pictures are automatically resized.

Although you can add security certificate exceptions in Firefox to access some websites, it is not usually advised. The untrusted connection warning in Firefox is there for a reason. If you continue with adding the exception, the data transfer to and from that website is not encrypted making you vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. If you have already added such an exception, then you should remove it as soon as possible

Earlier it used to be that you had to download one or more tools and install them on your computer to convert file formats and some of them did not even work. Now you can quickly convert your files into a different format using the free Zamzar online service. It allows you to convert all kinds of documents, images, videos and audio files easily and quickly.

If you are a Youtube addict like myself, then you must have noticed that some videos start playing in the HTML5 video format on their own. This happens even if you have opted out of the HTML5 video experiment in your Youtube account. This is very annoying because the HTML 5 videos do not play that smoothly on my computer. If you want to force Firefox to play all videos on Youtube in the Adobe Flash plugin only, then you can do so making simple changes in the Firefox configuration.

Youtube captions feature lets you watch video captions whenever available. Additionally, it also shows you captions when they are not available by automatically generating captions on-the-fly using their speech recognition engine. By default, Youtube shows you only the captions set by video uploader. But you can also turn on automatic captions generated using speech recognition so that you can also see captions when they are not available.

Both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome have emerged as two of the most popular web browsers in the last few years. People love to use them because they are fast and also have many security features. But if you want, then you can make it even faster with SpeedyFox application. SpeedyFox is a free Windows application which can be used to optimize your Firefox, Chrome and Thunderbird profile in order to make these applications faster.